If you are a blogger, photographer or just posting useful images on your website, then you might want to disable right click on images in WordPress. Many Webmasters create their own original images and screenshots and they won’t like someone stealing those images. So how would you protect images in WordPress? One way would be to disable the right click on images.
Disable Right Click on Images in WordPress
An easy solution for disabling images in WordPress would be to use a plugin named as No Right Click Images. This is a simple plugin to disables right click context menu on images so that your website visitors won’t be able to save the images. It disables the context menu on images only which means that the visitor can right click on links and on other elements of the webpage.
To install the plugin, go to WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add New and then install this plugin. Once the installation process is complete, Activate this plugin.
Now you can check out your front-end (home page of your site) and try to right-click on images. You will notice that right-clicking on the image won’t do anything. This plugin uses JavaScript to change the right click action on IMG tags to disable the context menu. It loads a small Javascript in the footer of every page.
There is a settings panel which can be accessed from Settings > No Right Click Images. Here is a short explanation of three settings.
- Replace image on right mouse click: If this option is checked, it replaces the target image with a new default image. It means that if someone tries to save the image, then the image will be saved but it won’t be the original image. The developer says that this option might conflict with other jquery sliders and galleries plugin. Therefore after enabling this option, check your website to see if everything is working fine.
- Prevent Drag and Drop: One way to save images is to directly drag and drop the image to the desktop. Checkmark this option to prevent users from doing this.
- Allow for Logged Users: If you want to allow logged in users to copy images, then checkmark this option.
Closing Words
Of course if someone is determined to copy the images then there’s nothing to prevent him/her from doing so. This plugin will at least make things hard for some of them.
The best method to protect your images is to add a watermark to them, so that even if the image is copied, people can know where the image is copied from.